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• Gong Recognizes Top Companies Harnessing AI for Revenue

• OpenAI co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, quit on Tuesday

• Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

• Trawa Raises €10M to Use AI for Renewable Energy Procurement

• NASA Names First Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

It’s been a huge week for AI, let’s dive in 🤿

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✨ AI: Money

Senate proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs

Senate panel proposes massive $32B yearly federal AI funding.

• A bipartisan Senate working group has proposed funding of at least $32 billion yearly for various AI programs and initiatives in the United States.

• The proposed funding would cover a wide range of areas, including AI research and development, infrastructure, national security, healthcare, cybersecurity, and regulatory frameworks.

• While the roadmap outlines important priorities, the article questions whether these priorities will remain relevant by the time Congress or the White House takes action, given the rapid pace of advancement in the AI industry compared to the slow-moving federal government.

💥 AI: Announcements

sorry not sorry: everyone and their sister are talking about OpenAI + Google announcements from this week, I didn’t want to leave you hanging.

OpenAI intros: GPT-4o

the “o” stands for omni model

• Text Evaluation: GPT-4o is better than most other popular LLMs.

• Speech Recognition: GPT-4o is better than Whisper-v3 across all languages, particularly for lower-resourced languages.

• Audio Translation: GPT-4o is better than other popular LLMs.

• M3Exam Zero-Shot: GPT-4o is better at multilingual and vision evaluation.

• Vision Understanding: GPT-4o has the highest performance on visual perception benchmarks.

Google I/O 2024: AI Takes Center Stage

New Models, Product Integration, and Responsible AI Initiatives

• Google announced several major advancements in their AI models and capabilities, including the Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro models with improved performance and larger context windows, the next-generation Imagen 3 for high-quality image generation, and Veo for generating longer, high-resolution videos.

• Google is integrating its AI models and capabilities across a wide range of products and services, including Search, Gmail, Android, Google Workspace, Photos, and various developer tools, enabling new AI-powered features and functionality.

• Google highlighted its efforts in responsible AI development, including techniques like AI-assisted red teaming, expanding watermarking capabilities, and developing educational resources and models focused on responsible AI use in classrooms and learning.

✨ Vibe Board

Here are some of my favorite things from this week:

🫶 AI: Creativity

The AI-Augmented Album: Crafting Music Through Machine Collaboration

A filmmaker's journey in using AI tools like Stable Audio and ChatGPT to enhance creativity and tell a story-driven musical narrative.

• Gabe Michael created a full musical album in under an hour using AI tools, specifically Stable Audio by Stability AI and ChatGPT for generating prompts. This process allowed the speaker to focus on their strengths as a creative director, using AI to achieve their artistic vision for a story-driven album.

• Michael sees AI as an enhancement to human creativity rather than a replacement. While there are fears about AI diminishing the value of human creativity and jobs, the speaker believes that their personal creativity has been augmented by working with AI tools.

• Lastly, Michael emphasizes the collaborative and satisfying creative process with AI, where they provided the artistic direction and vision, and the AI tools helped realize that vision. This fusion of AI and traditional tools is paving the way for entirely new forms of creativity, according to the speaker.

👀 Job Board

Here are some awesome open positions in the AI space that I would love to see one of our readers fill:

• Engagement Lead | Supernatural

  • salary: $210,000

• Account Executive | Otter.ai

  • salary: $200,00

• AI Lead, Customer Value and Transformation, Google Cloud | Google

  • salary: $243,000

• Strategic Account Executive | Higgsfield AI

  • salary: $327,000

What is IYKYK? (If you know, you know) 💅

I'm Sarah Stoker, a curious soul passionate about weaving the magic of emerging tech into our daily lives. I'm all about demystifying AI, making it feel like a coffee chat topic rather than a textbook chapter. Imagine blending the spark of human creativity with the wonders of AI – that's the adventure I'm on. I’m researching avenues for art that amplify our creative quests, and learning alongside you.